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Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding
collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the
bravest FNAF player up at night... Some things must be learned the
hard way ... Reed sees an opportunity to teach the school bully not
to mess with him, but ends up mangling the lesson. Robert, an
exhausted single father, gets a crash course in parenting when he
buys a fancy new teddy bear to watch and entertain his young son.
Chris, eager to join the Science Club at school, agrees to undergo
a grisly experiment to be accepted. But in the malevolent universe
of Five Nights at Freddy's, there's always an education in pain. In
this seventh volume, Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon
spins three sinister novella-length stories from different corners
of his series' canon, featuring cover art from fan-favourite artist
LadyFiszi. Readers beware: this collection of terrifying tales is
enough to unsettle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's
fans.
Evil Cynthia Cyber is robbing banks with her latest creation, a
villain named Currency. The stolen money will go toward building a
machine that can capture people in a simulation program. There she
could control every victim's life. It's up to the Gamer to stop
Cynthia Cyber from taking over the world!
Dark secrets and forbidden love threaten the very survival of the Shadowhunters in Cassandra Clare’s Queen of Air and Darkness, the final novel in the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling The Dark Artifices trilogy. Queen of Air and Darkness is a Shadowhunters novel.
What if damnation is the price of true love?
Innocent blood has been spilled on the steps of the Council Hall, the sacred stronghold of the Shadowhunters. In the wake of the tragic death of Livia Blackthorn, the Clave teeters on the brink of civil war. One fragment of the Blackthorn family flees to Los Angeles, seeking to discover the source of the disease that is destroying the race of warlocks. Meanwhile, Julian and Emma take desperate measures to put their forbidden love aside and undertake a perilous mission to Faerie to retrieve the Black Volume of the Dead. What they find in the Courts is a secret that may tear the Shadow World asunder and open a dark path into a future they could never have imagined. Caught in a race against time, Emma and Julian must save the world of Shadowhunters before the deadly power of the parabatai curse destroys them and everyone they love.
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Monster Master
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Francesca Ficorilli; Shawn Pryor
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The Gamer's friends are in beastly trouble! Villain Cynthia Cyber
has trapped them in her dangerous Power Combat video game. If the
Gamer isn't able to rescue his friends in just ten minutes, they'll
be stuck in the electronic world forever as monsters! Can the Gamer
make the save before it's too late?
The bestselling author of Good Girls Die First is back with an
entertaining, high-octane and read-in-a-single-sitting new
thriller. Welcome to the reality game show that'll scare you to
death! Have you got what it takes to last the night? Five
contestants must sit tight through the night in dark and dangerous
Umber Gorge caves, haunted by a ghost called the Puckered Maiden.
But is it the malevolent spirit they should fear... or each other?
As the production crew ramps up the frights, secrets start to be
revealed... these teenagers have hidden motives for taking part in
It's Behind You! and could some of them be... murder? It's Most
Haunted meets I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. Perfect for fans
of Holly Jackson and Karen McManus. Knife-edge tension and twists
you won't see coming...
"You are deluded, Romeo. Vampires do not have the capability to
love. They are heartless."
The Capulets and the Montagues have some deep and essential
differences. Blood differences. Of course, the Capulets can escape
their vampire fate, and the Montagues can try not to kill their
undead enemies. But at the end of the day, their blood feud is
unstoppable. So it's really quite a problem when Juliet, a
vampire-to-be, and Romeo, the human who should be hunting her, fall
desperately in love. What they don't realize is how deadly their
love will turn out to be--or what it will mean for their
afterlives. . . .
This riotous twist on the ultimate tale of forbidden romance is
simply to die for.
This inspired collection of short stories is based on the original
illustrations of Chris Van Allsburg in his much-loved picture book
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, and features many remarkable
best-selling authors from the worlds of both adult and children's
literature: Stephen King, Lemony Snicket, Sherman Alexie, M.T.
Anderson, Kate DiCamillo, Cory Doctorow, Jules Feiffer, Tabitha
King, Lois Lowry, Gregory Maguire, Walter Dean Myers, Linda Sue
Park, Louis Sachar, Jon Scieszka and Chris Van Allsburg himself.
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The Graveyard Book
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Neil Gaiman; Illustrated by Chris Riddell
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When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family,
who would have thought it would find safety and security in the
local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and
spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from
the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer
still looking for him - after all, he is the last remaining member
of the family. A stunningly original novel deftly constructed over
eight chapters, featuring every second year of Bod's life, from
babyhood to adolescence. Will Bod survive to be a man?
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Racing Ransom
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Shawn Pryor; Illustrated by Francesca Ficorilli
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The race is on for the Gamer! Villain Cynthia Cyber has captured
two victims in her video game Space Racers. The helpless players
cannot escape their speeding cars. Even worse, a monster racer is
threatening to destroy them. The Gamer must drive on to the digital
track and rescue the racers before it's game over.
The Hollow sisters - Vivi, Grey and Iris - are as seductively glamorous
as they are mysterious. They have black eyes and hair as white as milk.
The Hollow sisters don't have friends - they don't need them. They move
through the corridors like sharks, the other little fish parting around
them, whispering behind their backs.
And everyone knows who the Hollow sisters are. Because one day the
three Hollow sisters simply disappeared. And when they came back, one
month later, with no memory of where they had been, it was as if
nothing had changed. Almost nothing, Apart from, for example, the
little scar that had appeared in the hollow of their throats ... and a
whispering sense that something is not quite right about them, despite
(or maybe because of) the terrible passion to be with them that they
can exert on anybody at will...
A thrilling, twisting, novel that is as seductive and glamorous as the
Hollow sisters themselves....
Rules of The Midnight Game: Do not turn on the lights. Do not go to
sleep. Do not leave the building. When a group who have met on a
creepy Deddit thread decide to meet in real life, they only have
one plan in mind: they are going to summon the Midnight Man. And
once you start the Midnight Game, you must finish it - there's no
other way out! Six strangers. One night. But how many survivors?
From thriller-horror YA queen, Cynthia Murphy, author of Last One
To Die and TIKTOK MADE ME BUY IT Win Lose Kill Die, comes her third
nail-biting novel about CreepyPasta. Perfect for fans of Karen
McManus, Kathryn Foxfield and slasher horror movies like Candyman.
With six-character points-of-view, Deddit threads, newspaper
articles and DMs, this pacy thriller will keep you awake and
guessing until the very last page.
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